Driverless Cars Threaten to Crash Insurers’ Earnings
The insurance industry has a $160 billion blind spot: the driverless car.
Car insurers last year hauled in $200 billion of premiums, about a third of all premiums collected by the property-casualty industry. But as much as 80% of the intake could evaporate in coming decades, say some consultants, assuming crucial breakthroughs in driverless technology make driving safer and propel big changes in car ownership.
As the threat approaches, U.S. insurance executives are spending... [Lire la suite]

iCar release date rumours, features and images
Since February 2015, there have been various reports that Apple is working on a car that will "give Tesla a run for its money" after Business Insider spoke to an Apple employee with knowledge of the subject. This, coupled with sightings of cars registered to Apple, clad with sensors/cameras (which were later debunked), got everyone talking about the prospects of an Apple Car, or iCar.
The iCar project is codenamed 'Titan', according to The Wall... [Lire la suite]

Volvo and Mercedes-Benz Driving Roll Out of ADAS as Standard Equipment in Cars
ABI Research forecasts that the global market for Driver Monitoring Systems (DMS) will reach 64.8 million units by the end of 2020 with the majority of shipments being accounted for in vehicles sold in the Asia-Pacific region. These findings are part of ABI Research’s Intelligent Transportation Systems Research Service and includes detailed installed base and forecasts of ADAS systems [‪advanced driver assistance systems‬] by regions.
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Survey of Pedestrian Detection for
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
Advanced driver assistance systems (ADASs), and particularly pedestrian protection systems (PPSs), have become an
active research area aimed at improving traffic safety. The major challenge of PPSs is the development of reliable on-board pedestrian
detection systems. Due to the varying appearance of pedestrians (e.g., different clothes, changing size, aspect ratio, and dynamic
shape) and the unstructured environment, it is very difficult to cope with the... [Lire la suite]

Global Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) Market - Forecast & Analysis, 2016 - 2022 - Rising Awareness Towards Driver's Safety - Research and Markets
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) has become an essential constituent in the automotive systems nowadays. ADAS is one of the segments in automotive industry with a high growth potential. ADAS comprise of systems with efficient and advanced technologies that provide autonomy to the vehicles and assist the driver in driving the vehicle safely.
The various components in... [Lire la suite]

Uber beaten by Singapore’s NuTonomy in race to launch first driverless taxi service
As you read this, there are self-driving taxis tootling about the streets of Singapore picking up and dropping off regular folks like you and me.
The service, launched by driverless vehicle software startup NuTonomy, hit the streets of the island city-state on Thursday. It claims to be the first company in the world to offer members of the public rides in driverless cars, beating out competition not only from Uber, which is... [Lire la suite]

The winners and losers in the race for driverless cars
The ridesharing service Uber is pretty close to getting the go-ahead in almost all states and territories in Australia, with Victoria set to follow Queensland in introducing new legislation.
In the short term, Uber has committed to creating tens of thousands of new jobs in Australia. Many thousands of jobs have already been created and your typical Uber driver speaks positively of being empowered in a flexible working arrangement.
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Mercedes vs. Google: How two competing visions are racing to bring driverless cars to market
DETROIT — Two competing visions could determine how you first experience a driverless car.
Traditional automakers like Mercedes and Toyota already make vehicles equipped with systems that keep cars within their lanes, apply the brakes or park by themselves. Their plan is to gradually automate more functions of driving until, perhaps by 2025, some cars will be fully capable of driving themselves.
But Google, Alibaba, Baidu and other... [Lire la suite]

After riding in Uber's self-driving car, I think Tesla will have some serious competition
We got behind the wheel of Uber's self-driving car, and it's making us a little nervous for Tesla.
First, some context: Uber invited us down to Pittsburgh to try out the driverless car that it's letting a select few hail in the city starting Wednesday. The cars are in no way fully autonomous, which is why a driver and engineer will sit up front during the pilot.
But it's also a big milestone for driverless tech. Sure, people have gotten... [Lire la suite]

Robotics pioneer Sebastian Thrun is building an open-source autonomous car.
If Sebastian Thrun’s third self-driving-car project is as influential as his first two, we’ll be tearing up our driver’s licenses sooner than anyone expected.
As a robotics professor at Stanford, Thrun won the Pentagon’s 2005 contest for self-driving vehicles that fired the starting gun in the race to commercialize the technology. He then established and led Google’s car project, which has racked up more autonomous miles than any competitor.
The one... [Lire la suite]

Groupement ADAS is a Team of innovative companies with over 20 years experience in the field of technologies used in assistance driver systems (design, implementation and integration of ADAS in vehicles for safety features, driver assistance, partial delegation to the autonomous vehicle).